TMR 145 : Dr. Paul Craig Roberts : Interview Notes

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Published: 28 May 2016

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

In addition to having held numerous senior academic positions in universities, Dr. Roberts was an associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and was appointed by President Reagan as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during Reagan's first term in office, following which he served as a consultant to both the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

An interesting interview with Jean Monnet (a "founding father" of the EU) from 1963, in which he insists on both European political union and "equal partnership" with the USA. His motivation may well have been to see the birth of a more peaceful world, but his technocractic (and therefore, in my view, undemocratic) attitude can be seen in these words: "As the common interest broadens, political unity will tend to develop, and we can be quite certain that as soon as all the Community countries and Great Britain see their interests in the same light, they will speak with the same voice in political matters." [external PDF]

Keith Richardson, "Big Business and the European Agenda" [external PDF], SEI Working Paper 35, Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex (September 200) [Keith Richardson was formerly Secretary General of the European Roundtable of Industrialists]